In 1941, in Petrópolis, the main representative of the imperial family, Dom Pedro Gastão, wrote to an ambassador in Rio de Janeiro.
Letter signed by Dom Pedro Gastão to an ambassador.
4 pages, the last 3 blank.
Thick paper, with the official seal of the Imperial family.
In French.
16.4 cm x 20 cm.
Petropolis, Brazil. August 2, 1941.
Good condition of conservation.
Unique piece.
Excerpt
(...) I thank Your Excellency for your kind letter of the 12th; I took a while to reply due to a trip to Minas. I was very happy to receive such good news from Your Excellency and I hope to have the pleasure of meeting you in Rio soon.
Dom Pedro Gastão (1907 - 2007) was the grandson of Prince Gastão of Orléans and Princess Isabel, and brother of the Countess of Paris. He was born in France in the Château d'Eu, where his paternal grandparents lived during the banishment of the Brazilian imperial family. Throughout his adolescence, the prince visited Brazil only a few times, completed his studies in Europe and settled in Brazil after the Second World War, in Petrópolis.
According to Wikipedia, "There, Dom Pedro Gastão became one of the most popular figures of the imperial family and a sort of ambassador of the monarchical cause and a living representative of Brazil's imperial past. He accumulated thousands of documents and works of art in the archives of his residence that still help to tell the story of the so-called Imperial City. It was Pedro Gastão who also received the presidents of the republic on vacation in the city. He was proud to have met all the Brazilian heads of state, from Epitácio Pessoa to Fernando Henrique Cardoso."
Here we have a letter in excellent condition from Dom Pedro Gastão, shortly after his arrival in Petrópolis, in the middle of the Second World War. We also appreciate the official seal and the beautiful signature of the Prince.
